Talking Points Special

Weak States A Trend

Published June 8, 2005

Participants at a conference on "Weak States and Sudden Disaster and Conflicts: The Challenge for Military-NGO Relations" put on by the Institute for Research on Public Policy got a lecture yesterday from one of its own panelists, Care Canada President, John Watson, on how the idea of "weak states" was as much a vision of the future as it was an immediate crisis in Afghanistan or Iraq. Mr. Watson challenged some of...

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